Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg

Power to the top again....

but how about Viso in at p2...

Practice Session 3 Results..

http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/e.../practice3.jpg

Here are the Qualifying Groups..

Group 1

#2 Raphael Matos
#3 Helio Castroneves
#4 Dan Wheldon
#6 Ryan Briscoe
#7 Danica Patrick
#8 EJ Viso
#10 Dario Franchitti
#14 Vitor Meira
#22 Justin Wilson
#26 Marco Andretti
#37 Ryan Hunter-Reay
#77 Alex Tagliani

Group 2

#5 Takuma Sato
#9 Scott Dixon
#11 Tony Kanaan
#12 Will Power
#18 Milka Duno
#19 Alex Lloyd
#24 Mike Conway
#32 Mario Moraes
#34 Mario Romancini
#67 Graham Rahal
#78 Simona De Silvestro
#06 Hideki Mutoh

Says a lot about driver skill on roads/streets when the same Dale Coyne car was running up front in practice sessions last year, and this year with Milka is last and a full 5+ seconds off the next slowest car's pace.

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Originally Posted by NickFalzone

Says a lot about driver skill on roads/streets when the same Dale Coyne car was running up front in practice sessions last year, and this year with Milka is last and a full 5+ seconds off the next slowest car's pace.

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ya think it says more about Milka or Justin?

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Originally Posted by Ken

Rick was the bomb!

side story for ya....back in the early seventies my father and uncle raced a twoseater dune buggy in the baja 1000's etc.....against guys like mears, jones, evans etc...

anyhow....one year, i was 5 or 6 barely old enough to remember, they were running the Mint400 outside Las Vegas.....well the rest of the family was the unofficial pit crew in our Volkswagon bus...so were out in the nevada dessert and we come across none other than Rick Mears Broken down in the middle of nowhere with a tire that had broken off his racecar.....so he climbed into the back of the Bus with entire family, wheel and all, and we took him to the next check point...

needless to say we were huge Mears fans during his career....and rooted for him every May....he was (is!) magic at the speedway

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVfD1FU28cM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hkVLBZlG2w&NR=1

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Very cool story Ken...thanks for sharing. As you well know not only was he an amazing talent be a real classy guy.

Total shock.... Dario Franchitti and Ryan Briscoe did not make the Fast 6 from Group 1.

Duno spins out. What a waste!

The Fast 12 drivers to move on are..

Scott Dixon
Tony Kanaan
Will Power
Mike Conway
Takuma Sato
Hideki Mutoh
Helio Castroneves
Marco Andretti
Ryan Hunter-Reay
Justin Wilson
EJ Viso
Alex Tagliani

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Originally Posted by DanicaFan

The Fast 12 drivers to move on are..

Scott Dixon
Tony Kanaan
Will Power
Mike Conway
Takuma Sato
Hideki Mutoh
Helio Castroneves
Marco Andretti
Ryan Hunter-Reay
Justin Wilson
EJ Viso
Alex Tagliani

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Hm, all of the AGR drivers made the fast 12. Oh, except for one.